As you can see from the title, Sranan is a Creole language spoken. It is spoken in the linguistic diverse Tiny Suriname, where people also speak Dutch, Hindi, Javanese, Portuguese, Cantonese, and a variety of indigenous languages. Sranan is English-based. The bulk of Sranan vocabulary comes from English but with Dutch and Portuguese and even African linguistic heritage.

Their goal was to see if Sranan words could be analyzed to see where in England the colonists had come from. The dialects across England were compared to Sranan words. The results imply two major dialects contributed majority of Sranan: one from the southwest of England, near Bristol, and another from the southeast, in Essex. Historical records already told us that the majority of English people who came to Suriname originated from these areas. So this method of forensic linguistic analysis is validated.

With a validated method, this can be applied to trace the fine details of African origins of West Indies. African languages have been less intensively studied than English, partially because they make up less percentage of modern day creoles. But with little historical record of where African people came from during the slave trades, this way of deconstructing creole languages can be used to trace peoples cultural heritage that was lost to time.